can’t believe I only lasted like a decade with modest expectations for civic responsibility and now I’m just trying to figure out how soon and where I can dump $$$ into a house so I can stop thinking about any of this and do something else
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if you don’t want to arb with crypto you could try a more traditional trade. CAD/JPY/USD or CAD/EUR/USD. but you have to actually think the dollar will stay weak for that to work. crypto is both bullish and volatile enough that you’re pretty well guaranteed to get a shot at making it a favorable trade. real currencies who the fuck knows. then again, everything is super volatile right now. covid is doing its thing, the US election is scaring the shit out of everyone, etc. if markets keep stumbling the dollar will rise against everything and you’re likely to feel pain if you try to get USD.
to get this thread back on track:
Intel made a 2 tflop GPU and wants a prize
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I’ve got the dreaded Pixel 2 camera crash bug. I’ve done everything short of the factory reset and my camera still crashes all of the time since yesterday. I really don’t want to spend money on a new phone but I do love taking pictures.
Got a new monitor, Dell S3220DGF. Still “gaming” but basically the opposite end of the spectrum in feature set from my S2417DG. Same ppi as a 24” 1080p panel on a 32” and technically 165hz but fudging it.
VA panel so:
- nearly 5x contrast ratio vs my TN and nearly 3x the LG 27GL850 (the best 144hz IPS panel going)
- near-total sRGB coverage
- 15ms response rate, which manifests in motion resolution that I’ve seen described as “smudging” dark colors
The TN panel in my old monitor has nasty gradient banding on dark greys and greens (colors all over Hive areas in Destiny) and looked really bad next to every other display I use.
To get both good motion resolution and TV-grade contrast you have to step up to something like the Samsung G7 (2x the cost of this Dell). The G7 has a very aggressive curve and a short warranty so there’s no way I’m rolling the dice on it, though.
Deciding whether to return this or sell the TN panel - it’s pretty, fast, and “cheap,” pick two
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basically sounds like I’m not wrong to not be planning on stepping up for another few years
Yeah, the only reasons I’m trying this out are the resale on the S2417DG, contrast’s importance to Destiny, and the ergonomic value of sitting further back without squinting.
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I don’t see them fixing this divide with LCD - small OLED or micro LED will just resolve it eventually once you can get an OLED smaller than 48".
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this is driving me up the wall too. my new job issued me a 3 yr old macbook pro that runs hot 24/7 + has horrible battery issues as a “new laptop” and they’re already talking about moving away from apple when ARM happens. as bad as apple’s been, getting stuck with linux on some cheap intel business dell for 40 hours a week sounds much much worse
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Weirdly enough gaming isn’t where the motion resolution bothers me. I hadn’t realized the majority of my sub-5ms motion value is in scrolling through PDFs lol
Getting an ASUS monitor with 165hz adaptive sync black frame insertion so I can read as a I scroll is peak self-parody
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the pre-quad core skylake MBPs from 2016 and 2017 were truly, truly terrible; some of the worst computers anyone ever made. the 2018s and on have been basically ok with caveats.
… because?
People have been using linux well on lame ass intel machines for decades, if it isn’t gaming you’re after. And if you aren’t as stupid as me and stick around Ubuntu, since i’ve been using it for more than a decade, you even get the freedom to choose which flavor you want, or does your company enforce a specific flavor to be used.
But anyway, battery-draining, fullspeed-fan behaviour is nowadays not an issue with linux anymore, what i’d feel way more anxious about is early 2000s extravaganza like SDcard readers, WLAN and Bluetooth, even if drivers have been around for a while.
That’s where I’d begin praying…
OK fine, just now something important came to mind you should ALSO be wary about:
if you have a graphics card in your laptopy that uh, can be… fun compiling times before rolling back to an earlier kernel version.
and yeah OK, if you use AMD cards that ALSO has been sometimes an issue in the past, OK.
aaaaand… nah, that’s it, i think.
mostly because i don’t get paid to fight with desktop linux all day (i’m a front-end web developer) so i need an OS and computer that will just work without me having to put hours into keeping it working?
that & my experience with “workplace issued PC hardware” has largely been absolute garbage lowest bidder sort of stuff. cheap parts, awful keyboards, shit monitors with bad color. one benefit of working at an apple shop is that (outside of the 2016-2017 models) you’re going to get a pretty capable & reliable workstation out of any given macbook (hell, i did web dev on a 2010 macbook air for years)
there’s also the other thing where i’ve been using macs for development for nearly a decade and i’d prefer not to have to relearn years of window management / text manipulation / etc muscle memory. hell, using my pinky to hit a modifier key instead of my thumb aggravates my carpal tunnel so that’s another thing i’d need to tweak and maintain long term.
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hello, have you heard the good word
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no one wants to not be able to use a laptop keyboard most of the time!!
That is demonstrably not true felix
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I said this like 
i’ll put together some split ergo thing to your specifications but also remapping keys on Windows is much more reasonable now that it’s in PowerToys. The very first thing I do on a Windows computer is swap the bottom modifiers and make caps lock into control (which while still on a pinky is much more comfortable because it’s inline with home row)
I may have said the inverse of what I meant – I don’t like to exclude myself from being able to work away from my desk
I like how I no longer have a functioning caps lock key on either OS; on my mac it’s been escape since 2018